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run in place
Idioms and Phrases
Work or exert oneself without noticeable change or progress. For example, I've worked on this project for months but feel I'm running in place . This idiom employs in place in the sense of “on one spot,” a usage dating from the late 1200s.Example Sentences
Like who will the DUP run in place of Sir Jeffrey Donaldson in Lagan Valley?
Instead, they bathed in creeks and slept on the floor, waking up at dawn to run in place and do push-ups.
Cochran would have liked “Race Against the Machines,” a station that calculates how quickly visitors run in place.
It happened in 1992 in Detroit when Erik Kramer backed up Rodney Peete after making a playoff run in place of an injured Peete in 1991.
With playfulness, dancers run in place or, in a comic male section, smack one another and then pause for a cheek-to-cheek kiss.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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